Doctor Who is off the air until September, and a number of questions remain unanswered. But just because we don't get any new Who for three months doesn't mean we have to stop talking about it! So here is my chance to answer all of your burning questions. Because I know everything that's going to happen in the second half of series 6. All the reveals.<br/><br/><strong>Spoiler Warning for everything, up to and including A Good Man Goes to War, and for the rest of the series too, if I'm right!</strong><br/><br/>Okay, so I don't really know all the reveals. I don't have access to the scripts, and I certainly don't have a retro-futuristic thought recorder pointed at Steven Moffat's head (not that you can prove, anyway). But I do have a pretty good idea where the story is going, and I think I've got at least one reveal pegged.<br/><br/>To start, let's reviewthe two biggest questions that the show left unanswered after <em>A Good Man Goes to War</em>:<br/><ul><br/><li>Who kills the Doctor (i.e., Who is in the Astronaut suit on the lake in 2011)?</li><br/><li>How does the doctor survive being killed? Because, let's face it, he does.</li><br/><li>Who did River Song kill?</li><br/></ul><br/>I think I know the answer to the last one. Here's your big spoiler: River Song kills her father, Rory Williams.<br/><br/>How do I know this? Moffat has left us a lot of evidence hinting in this direction. The evidence comes down to a theme in Moffat's work: misdirection, specifically repeated misdirection.<br/><br/>Let's start with the misdirection. By misdirection, I mean that there is a tendency in Moffat's writing to tell us something in such a way that we assume something else. The easiest example to spot is in Amy's monologues about Rory in series 6. The first one is in <em>Day of the Moon</em>, when she is captured by the Silence, and is talking to herself (but directing the words to Rory). She says:<br/><blockquote>I love you. I know you think it's him. I know you think it ought to be him. But it's not. It's you. And when I see you again I'm gonna tell you properly. Just to see your stupid face. My life was so boring before you just dropped out of the sky. Just get your stupid face where I could see it, okay?</blockquote><br/>So, this is designed to make you assume she's confessing her love for the Doctor - especially the phrase 'just dropped out of the sky'. This is even lampshaded later, when she tells Rory it was just a figure of speech. That lampshade is, of course, Moffat gently mocking the audience for falling for his misdirection. He likes mocking us for falling for it, too: he does the same thing with FleshAmy and FleshMelody. Kovarian tells the Doctor, "Oh, Doctor, fooling you once was a joy. But fooling you twice, the same way, it's a privilege." These are both moments where the fourth wall is broken while still maintaining diegetic cohesion (Russel T Davies did the same thing with the 10th Doctor's last line, "I don't want to go", which is clearly meant to be spoken by Davies, Tennant, and the Doctor simultaneously).<br/><br/>There is a second example of the Doctor-Rory misdirection; at the beginning of <em>A Good Man Goes to War</em>:<br/><blockquote>I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved. That you'll be safe and cared for and protected. But this isn't the time for lies. What you are going to be, Melody, is very, very brave. But not as brave as they'll have to be. Because there's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing. Trust me, he's on his way. There's the man who's never going to let us down. And not even an army can get in the way. He's the last of his kind. He looks young, but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you will never be alone.</blockquote><br/>Now, this one drops a really big hint, because both the phrases 'there's someone coming' and 'you will never be alone' parallels what Rory said in <em>Day of the Moon</em>: "She can always hear me, Doctor. Always. Wherever she is and she always knows tha
